Maximum financial powers for sanctioning any extra item or items, substituted item or items, and deviation in quantity or quantities at a time or one or two of it.
Governor has been pleased to enhance the limit of financial power of the Additional Chief Secretary/ Principal Secretary/ Secretary for administrative approval for any plan expenditure upto Rs. 20.00 Crore.
Deviation in quantities of individual item up to +10% of agreement quantities will not need any prior approval of technical sanction authority and sanction of deviations is not required.
Financial limit for technical vetting of any scheme for Sub-Assistant Engineers, Assistant Engineers, Executive Engineers and Superintendent Engineers will remain unchanged.
Junior Engineers are responsible for the execution of original/ maintenance works and maintenance of material accounts and public asset with which they are concerned.
In case a Stenographer is now posted in a lower cadre post, the same will be deemed to have been upgraded within one year by which he/she will be transferred as per Cadre Schedule.
Governor is pleased to decide that all existing staff members of work charged establishments under State Government establishments will be included under West Bengal Health Scheme.
There should normally be no post tender negotiations. If at all negotiations are warranted under exceptional circumstances, then it can be with L1, (Lowest tenderer) only.
26 PSUs/ Corporations would be restructured and 20 would be merged. The remaining 44 PSUs/ Corporations will continue to remain functional.
Installation of Mobile Tower on top of various Government buildings to improve Mobile Connectivity and provision of IBS for boosting the network coverage inside the buildings.